SC Cleared Contracts in Manchester

Security Check (SC) Clearance
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 15 8
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +16
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 99 141 254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 10.69% 9.29% 13.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.64% 39.06% 50.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 104 178
10th Percentile £400 £350 £414
25th Percentile £450 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £694 £650
90th Percentile £716 £825 £700
North West median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 5
10th Percentile - £31.65 £22.87
25th Percentile - £33.00 £26.85
Median hourly rate £60.00 £72.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +3.57% +66.67%
75th Percentile £63.44 £73.75 -
90th Percentile £69.63 - -
North West median hourly rate £60.00 £11.20 £42.50
% change year-on-year +435.95% -73.66% +2.77%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

SC Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Manchester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 263 361 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.40% 23.80% 26.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 214 369
10th Percentile £300 £313 £338
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £619
90th Percentile £713 £805 £700
North West median daily rate £494 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 25 17
10th Percentile - £24.14 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £25.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £46.25 £49.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% +96.00% +54.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £73.75 £37.50
90th Percentile £74.13 £94.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in Manchester

SC Cleared
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Salford +1 6 £708 +66.59%
Stockport -4 3 £501 -2.24% 11
Bolton -8 3 - - 18
Wigan - 2 - - 1
Altrincham - 1 - - 2
SC Cleared
North West

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Primavera
2 4 (4.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (3.03%) SAP PS
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.01%) SAP PM
4 1 (1.01%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 33 (33.33%) AWS
2 14 (14.14%) Azure
3 10 (10.10%) Serverless
4 7 (7.07%) GCP
5 3 (3.03%) Google Workspace
6 2 (2.02%) Amazon ELB
6 2 (2.02%) Azure App Service
6 2 (2.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.02%) Azure Storage
6 2 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.02%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.02%) SaaS
6 2 (2.02%) Slack
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.01%) Kong
7 1 (1.01%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.01%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.04%) Firewall
2 2 (2.02%) DWDM
2 2 (2.02%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.02%) Network Security
2 2 (2.02%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (2.02%) VPN
2 2 (2.02%) WAN
3 1 (1.01%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.14%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.04%) Big Data
3 4 (4.04%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.03%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.03%) MySQL
5 2 (2.02%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.02%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.01%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.01%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (13.13%) Jenkins
2 12 (12.12%) JUnit
3 10 (10.10%) Gradle
3 10 (10.10%) Liquibase
3 10 (10.10%) Mockito
4 8 (8.08%) GitLab
5 5 (5.05%) Git
6 4 (4.04%) JIRA
7 3 (3.03%) Jasmine
8 2 (2.02%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.02%) gulp
8 2 (2.02%) Maven
9 1 (1.01%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.01%) Grunt
9 1 (1.01%) Mocha
9 1 (1.01%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (1.01%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.01%) Subversion
General
1 37 (37.37%) Public Sector
2 17 (17.17%) Social Skills
3 16 (16.16%) Telecoms
4 15 (15.15%) Finance
5 10 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.10%) Electronics
5 10 (10.10%) Manufacturing
5 10 (10.10%) Marketing
6 8 (8.08%) Legal
7 4 (4.04%) Military
8 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (28.28%) Architect
2 26 (26.26%) Developer
3 17 (17.17%) Senior
4 9 (9.09%) Senior Developer
5 8 (8.08%) Java Developer
5 8 (8.08%) Lead
5 8 (8.08%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (8.08%) Technical Architect
6 6 (6.06%) Data Architect
6 6 (6.06%) Data Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Java Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Node.js Developer
6 6 (6.06%) Project Planner
6 6 (6.06%) React Developer
6 6 (6.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
6 6 (6.06%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) AWS Developer
7 5 (5.05%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.16%) Kafka
2 15 (15.15%) Node.js
2 15 (15.15%) Spring
2 15 (15.15%) Spring Boot
3 13 (13.13%) React
4 12 (12.12%) OpenAPI
4 12 (12.12%) Swagger
5 3 (3.03%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (3.03%) SAP Fiori
5 3 (3.03%) SAPUI5
6 2 (2.02%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.02%) CSS
6 2 (2.02%) Express.js
6 2 (2.02%) HTML
6 2 (2.02%) RESTful
6 2 (2.02%) Spring Batch
6 2 (2.02%) Spring Security
7 1 (1.01%) Apache CXF
7 1 (1.01%) jQuery
7 1 (1.01%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.04%) Mobile App
2 3 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.02%) BYOD
3 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.02%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.02%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.01%) EMC VNX
4 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.01%) IBM XIV
4 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.05%) Linux
2 3 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (3.03%) Windows
3 2 (2.02%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.02%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.01%) CentOS
4 1 (1.01%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (25.25%) Software Engineering
2 18 (18.18%) Agile
2 18 (18.18%) Microservices
3 17 (17.17%) Migration
4 16 (16.16%) DevOps
5 15 (15.15%) CI/CD
6 12 (12.12%) Containerisation
6 12 (12.12%) TDD
7 10 (10.10%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (10.10%) Digital Marketing
7 10 (10.10%) Programme Management
8 9 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (7.07%) Computer Science
9 7 (7.07%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (7.07%) Roadmaps
10 6 (6.06%) Event-Driven
10 6 (6.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 6 (6.06%) Project Management
10 6 (6.06%) User Experience
11 5 (5.05%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (21.21%) Java
2 17 (17.17%) SQL
3 11 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 4 (4.04%) Bash
4 4 (4.04%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.04%) Python
5 3 (3.03%) ABAP
5 3 (3.03%) Go
5 3 (3.03%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.02%) Bicep
6 2 (2.02%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.02%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.01%) C++
7 1 (1.01%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 99 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.08%) DV Cleared
2 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (7.07%) Degree
4 6 (6.06%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (6.06%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.02%) CCNA
5 2 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.02%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (2.02%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.02%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.01%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) QA
2 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.01%) SLA
2 1 (1.01%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (13.13%) Docker
2 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.02%) BitLocker
2 2 (2.02%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (5.05%) Terraform
2 4 (4.04%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.03%) Kibana
4 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.02%) Packer
4 2 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.01%) Ansible
5 1 (1.01%) Grafana
5 1 (1.01%) Graylog
5 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.01%) Puppet
5 1 (1.01%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.01%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (19.19%) SAP
2 14 (14.14%) Microsoft
3 13 (13.13%) Google
4 3 (3.03%) Cloudera
4 3 (3.03%) Informatica
4 3 (3.03%) Splunk
5 2 (2.02%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.02%) Citrix
5 2 (2.02%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.02%) IBM
5 2 (2.02%) Oracle
5 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.02%) VMware
5 2 (2.02%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.01%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.01%) Databricks
6 1 (1.01%) EMC
6 1 (1.01%) Software AG
6 1 (1.01%) webMethods